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Currently not on display

Alessandro Gherardini

Florence, 1655 - Livorno, 1723

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Materials and Techniques oil on canvas
Size(cm) 99.0 x 72.0
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.2005-0009

Provenance

Purchased in New York in the 1930's by the father of Mrs. Anita Muller; Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 3 June 1988, lot. 97; Private collection, Japan.

Exhibition History

1972
Metropolitan Museum of Art,, New York, 0  1972 - 0  1978
2007
Gods and Nature: The Essence of European Art from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Himeji City Museum of Art, 4 November 2007 - 2 December 2007, cat. no. 4
2007
Gods and Nature: The Essence of European Art from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, 11 December 2007 - 3 February 2008, cat. no. 4

Bibliography

1971
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Annual Report 1971-1972. New York, p. 42 as G. A. Pelligrini.
1995
Knox, G. Antonio Pelleglini 1675-1741. Oxford, 1995, p. 249, No. P. 319 as "Not Pelliglini".
2007
Gods and Nature: The Essence of European Art from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.). Oya, Mina, ed. Tokyo, the National Museum of Western Art, 2007, pp. 15, 89, 115, cat. no. 4, col. repr.
2007
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 40 (Apr. 2005-Mar. 2006), 2007, Takanashi, Mitsumasa. New Acquisitoins. pp. 31-33, List of New Acquisitions. p. 63, repr.
2018
Berti, Federico. Un dipinto di Alessandro Gherardini in Giappone. Journal of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. No. 22, 2018, pp. 5-11, repr.[with Japanese abstract by Watanabe, Shinsuke]

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